Posted on 07/18/2022 4:14:23 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
San Francisco is getting its first NFT-based restaurant and private club. And it’s being built right in the middle of a public park.
A flurry of recent press releases from an entity named the Sho Group — a “global experiential hospitality platform” — revealed the details of the ostentatious Japanese-themed restaurant and private club, to be built on San Francisco’s most ostentatious public space, Salesforce Park.
The restaurant, slated to open sometime next year, will include the members-only Sho Club Sky Lounge and will be perched atop the western end of Salesforce Park’s four-block stretch in a neighborhood no one from San Francisco is calling the East Cut.
The venture is led by Josh Sigel, a self-described “internationally recognized thought leader and innovator.”
The wording around the club’s recent media blitz reads like a parody of Silicon Valley’s repellent buzzwordery.
"SHO Club is a member’s only NFT-based hospitality club providing exclusive access to immersive experiences and services around its flagship restaurant, SHO," reads the blurb.
What’s more galling than the repeated use of the terms “immersive” and “experiential” to describe an actual restaurant is the fact that, as the group’s website proudly proclaims, the astronomically expensive and exclusive eatery “is the only rooftop restaurant located on the Salesforce Transit Center’s roof.”
As downtown San Francisco suffers through soaring homelessness, vacant storefronts and a deadly fentanyl epidemic, the idea of its newest public space only providing food for those willing to spend exorbitant sums is brazen.
In a terrifying J.G. Ballard-like dystopian metaphor come to life, the private lounge, which will charge a top-tier membership fee of $300,000 a pop (yes, really, more on that later), will be situated 70 feet above surrounding homeless encampments.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Quite dystopian, even for San Fransicko
All the while they preach and push “diversity” on the peons.
They’ll get Monkeypox
"Would you like an outside table?"
I hope there is a bidenville around it the first week.
There already is, though we call them Newsombergs around these parts.
Oh, brother. "We are not pretentious, are we?" Flip a few Wagyu burgers to the unwashed below and film the fights.
How long before the path to the entrance is decorated by feces?
It seems like every major city used to have private supper clubs and dinner clubs. Here in Birmingham there is only two left that I know of.
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